📋 Tender Overview
Scope : Construction of New Passenger Car Tyre Plant in Mexico.
YOKOHAMA announces that it recently held a groundbreaking ceremony on 15th April ahead of the start of construction of its new passenger car tyre plant in Mexico. The ceremony was attended by many local government officials and representatives from the local community, including Coahuila Governor Manolo Jiménez Salinas and Saltillo Mayor Jose Maria Fraustro Siller. From Yokohama Rubber, Chairman & CEO Masataka Yamaishi and Member of the Board and Senior Managing Officer & Co-COO Nitin Mantri were joined by Shinichi Takimoto, Chairman and CEO of Yokohama Corporation of North America (YCNA), a YOKOHAMA tyre sales subsidiary, and Jeff Barna, President and CEO of Yokohama Tire Corporation (YTC), a US-based tyre sales subsidiary.
In their opening greetings, Yamaishi and Barna expressed their gratitude in advance for the many efforts to be made in the plant’s construction and mentioned the plant’s importance to localizing YOKOHAMA’s business in the North American market. The new plant will increase YOKOHAMA’s tyre production capacity in North America, enabling the Company to meet an expected increase in future demand in the region with tyres produced locally in the region. The Mexico plant will have an annual production capacity of 5 million tyres. Construction will begin during the second quarter of 2024, with production scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2027. The Company will also consider expanding the plant’s capacity in the future.
